Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know who authored the article about Paul Hutchinson, but to one of his family-a sister-it was a singularly sensitive appreciation. Please accept my thanks...
...State Department officers, from John Foster Dulles on down, hurried through the procedure to offer Democrat George a high-ranking diplomatic post. Before the Senator announced his decision, President Eisenhower telephoned to offer him the new position of U.S. Ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. George agreed to accept, but did not say when he would take the job. In the hand of an Assistant Secretary of State, the President rushed over a "Dear Walter" letter, praising the Georgian's "great career as a statesman...
...August. With Michigan's delegates planning to offer their 45-year-old governor as something more than just a favorite-son candidate, Williams has said that he feels "no compelling urge to run for the vice presidency [but] I am not prepared to say I wouldn't accept...
...through a combination of armed might and wisdom, the Prankish King Charlemagne succeeded in establishing a measure of unity in war-torn Europe. Last week, 1,142 years after Charlemagne's burial in Aix la-Chapelle (the German city of Aachen), Sir Winston Churchill journeyed to Aachen to accept its Charlemagne Prize* for his own efforts to promote European understanding...
Instead, the debator derives his satisfaction from mastering the argument on his side of the issue. "You don't adopt a set of beliefs that you don't accept," one debators said. "You merely try to understand the argument and restate it in a coherent manner...